38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine if nitrogen fixation can occur in simulated Martian regolith and if so, to quantify the ammonium added to the soil through this process. Methods/Materials Plant…
ISEF · 2016
Solar panels use the energy in light to free electrons create potential difference, creating a flow of electrons (current) and electromotive force (EMF, or voltage). Because electromagnetic…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals While at a nature preserve, I encountered the Engelmann Oak, or Quercus engelmannii, an endangered native tree. Since oaks produce tannins and some produce potential allelop…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals In Yemen, the production of native watermelon using landrace seeds has been disrupted due to civil war leaving farmers with aged seeds. Studies have shown that seed priming…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The study is studied the effects of sleep quality on recalling words in an entirely novel language. The impact of demographic details such as gender, race, and age and recal…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to measure and find which temperatures are optimal for catalase enzymes to work in by testing the reaction time of catalase enzymes and hydrog…
ISEF · 2016
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is an actively researched disease since the underlying cause is still unknown. After a substantial loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain a patient will experienc…
CSEF · 2016
Toxicology Third Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment tested which ratio of greywater to clean water (greywater/clean water), among eleven, descending by 10% greywater, is the most effective when used to water t…
ISEF · 2016
Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a global issue that is alarmingly increasing. Due to this, the development of research for an alternatively new medication is significant. The effect of various C…
CSEF · 2016
Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out which possible pollutant stops radishes from growing the most and to find out how much pollution affects plants around the world.…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if induced postnatal deletion of a protein kinase in vascular endothelial cells will result in mice experiencing changes in grow…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Does the amount yeast rises vary depending on the temperature the yeast is exposed to prior to baking? Methods/Materials Used thermometer, standard bread recipe to make doug…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine the best fertilizers to use to create a sustainable food source for deep space exploration and colonization. Methods/Materials…
ISEF · 2016
The sweet potato whitefly, Bermisa tabaci (Genadius) has become a major pest of economically important crops worldwide. Especially in vegetable crops in the lower Rio Grande Valley. In this…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Near where I live is a creek called Cottonwood Creek, which has been plagued with high nutrient and bacterial levels. This contamination has been addressed by two methods: a…
ISEF · 2016
Energy consumption and refrigerants employed in air conditioning are an environmental concern due to global warming and ozone layer destruction. However, this problem can be minimized by the…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
My project addresses a long-standing problem at the intersection of computer science, cryptography, and game theory. A truly efficient system for secure multiparty computation (sMPC) has bee…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The security of data is a major issue in today’s society–one way to ensure this security is to use digital signatures. NTRUSign, the signature scheme based on the N-th Degree Truncated Polyn…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Solar panels can diminish and produce less power when exposed to high temperatures. The objective of this experiment was to develop an efficient method of cooling down solar…
ISEF · 2016
Heavy metal spills are amongst the most perilous threats to current and future populations. Once an environment is over polluted with heavy metals, there is no natural intercession for its r…
ISEF · 2016
The project is a theoretical and experimental study of electro sensitive elastomers, more specifically polydimethylsiloxane, which is concretized in a comparison of polymers based on polydim…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals The 2015-2016 El Niño is predicted to be one of the strongest of its kind since it its devastating 1997-1998 occurrence. This project uses Morisita-Horn Index (Morisita's) a…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Electrical discharges in liquids have been used for water disinfection and decontamination, nanoparticle production, and many other chemical and biological applications. Gas bubbles are intr…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
[Research purpose] Skateboarding World Day falls on June 21 every year. The skateboard is divided into two categories: (1) Trick Board; (2) Long board. The latter is more popular. For the sa…
ISEF · 2016
Spaceflight has always been hindered by propellant constraints. The high propellant mass fractions required for chemical systems and the thrust disadvantages of electric systems have slowed…
ISEF · 2016
This research was aimed at creating and testing hollandite, a synthetic polymorph of titanium dioxide (TiO2), for its potential as an alternative to indium tin oxide (ITO) in touchscreens. D…
ISEF · 2016
Goal setting: experimental study of the dependence of current distribution and current density along the length of the processed item when electrochemical polishing of wire from geometrical…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
When we did an experiment on electrolysis using mechanical pencil leads as electrodes, one of the electrodes happened to be broken and fell into the electrolytic solution. The experiment was…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My objective is to prove that orange juice has more electrolytes than sports drinks and delivers them best by making a conductance sensor to test the electrical conductivity…
ISEF · 2016
The world is plagued with dangerous situations including everything from accidents to wars, that often result in people losing a hand, arm or leg. Industrial accidents, as a result of danger…